Kurgan Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 toms: Very insightful comments. Most of my comments relating to the DVD changes have been "Why George, Why?" and "is this guy a hypocrite or what?" type stuff. But your theories sound very plausible insight into the man's thinking from his actions over the past 7 years. I feel sorry for GL in the way that he takes so much flak from fans, but on the other hand I feel like he brings much of it on himself (and being famous this comes with the territory). Perhaps he really doesn't realize the effect it has, and doesn't want to lose face from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nairb Notneb Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Insane Sith, I will be buying this DVD because it is Star Wars. I believe that the OT is cannon and should be made available and that GL has every right to do whatever he wants to his work, it is his. However, it would be nothing without the galactic sized fan base that only Star Wars has. Nothing else has the fan base that SW has, nothing. Knowing that to be true, GL owes something to all of us, for all of the love and heart that we have poured out into SW over the years from ourselves. We have spent countless hours role-playing in one way or another, be it in video games, in the movies themselves, in books, comics, action figures, role playing, costumes, Christmas and Ewok TV specials, cartoons, Burger King glasses, sc-fi conventions, nerd jokes, web sites, forums you name it we did it and old GL the living Force himself has made millions off of us, so we deserve to one true trilogy in tact on dvd if we want it. I guarantee that in enough time, he will make it available, he will finally add the Biggs and Luke and Tashy (spelling) Station scene, the Wampa attack on Hoth scene and the alternate ending where Lando dies so that we can all have it. Why? Because we want it and he knows we will buy it. We are nuts for this stuff like its a drug or something, I know it and I don't care, SW is a part of my life, my childhood and now my adult hood and now also a part of my children's lives as well and I love it so give me the OT and I want it now!!! Thank you, I'm Nairb Notneb and I approved this message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Originally posted by Spider AL I think this says it all. http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2374 I especially like these: http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg09142004/Comeau.jpg http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg09142004/osoiman.jpg A smile has found its way to my face. Kudos to you sir, kudos. @Kurgan: Poetry as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Originally posted by Kurgan toms: Very insightful comments. I should point out they weren't my comments, just ones that i saw on slashdot and thought made some sense and were worth reposting. (incase i get tragetted by mad slashdotters for stealing their quotes ) The bill and ted bit in that last picture made me laugh. I just watched ANH and i'm gonna post my comments/review in the other "official thread". (including comments on changes as they are now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nairb Notneb Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 If those had been the changes that GL had really made (especially the AT-AT's) then nobody would have cried about it. I like the scream mask on the Scout Trooper. Nice touch especially when you make the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon connection with Wicket to Courtney Cox type of a thing in this. The actor that played Wicket played the Leprechaun with Jennifer Anniston (her first movie before Friends) and JA of course knows Courtney and she was in Scream. Freaky aint it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 The real reason behind GL's changing the movies? My work, brother's idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Posted because it's relevant http://penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Originally posted by ET Warrior Posted because it's relevant http://penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l.jpg Exaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Rythe Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Originally posted by TK-8252 (i.e. the Stormtrooper bumping his head on the door in ANH -_-). I watched a Documentary the other day where the actor that playerd that trooper said it was in the script, Lucas confirmed it. It's surposed to make S-troopers look dumb, which I think they've sucseeded in doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiroki Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Originally posted by ET Warrior Considering that the old Republic lasted what? 10,000 years? I can't remember...but the Empire didn't do very well at ALL Old Republic = 25,000 years old. Empire = Roughly 24 years up until its fall a few years after ROTJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Well AOTC says that the Republic is 1,000 years old (Palpatine: "I will not let this Republic, which has stood for a thousand years, be split in two!"). But then that contradicts what Obi-Wan said in ANH ("for over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic"). The EU tries to explain it somehow with wars or reunifications or something, I haven't read it, only heard about it third hand, so don't quote me on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nairb Notneb Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Both Palpatiness and Obi-Wans statements could be true at the same time, from a certain point of view (I love that line, use it as often as I can, gets me out of trouble, Clinton should have tried it). "This Republic...for 1000 years" can be true because maybe it's current "constitution" has been in effect for that long making it the current "Republic". Also, maybe there have been other Republics under different written constitutions that have existed for about 1000 generations (a generation being about 20 years or so giving us about 20,000 years) in which the Jedi have been the protectors of. If you look at the good old U.S.A., we became a country in 1776, won our independence (yes, we are rebels to, and the Force was with us) several years later. Our constitution wasn't written until 1787, 11 years after our independence. For those 11 years we operated under the Articles of Confederation and had other Presidents besides George Washington. GW was the first President of the U.S.A. under the Constitution, but not the U.S.A. So, from a certain point of view, both time frames can be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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